(a) Days designated.
(1) The following official holidays will be observed:
(A) New Year's Day (January 1);
(B) Martin Luther King's Birthday (third Monday in January);
(C) President's Day (third Monday in February);
(D) Memorial Day (last Monday in May);
(E) Juneteenth (June 19th);
(F) Independence Day (July 4);
(G) Labor Day/Cesar E. Chavez Day (first Monday in September);
(H) Indigenous People's Day (second Monday in October);
(I) Veterans Day (November 11th);
(J) Thanksgiving Day (fourth Thursday in November);
(K) Day after Thanksgiving/ September 11th Remembrance Day; and
(L) Christmas Day (December 25).
(2) Additional holidays may be granted by ordinance or resolution of the city council at the recommendation of the city manager.
(b) Holiday pay. Paid holidays are extended to every permanent employee and to every temporary employee as described in Section 34-8
(a). A full-time permanent or temporary employee receives holiday pay equal to the employee's standard work day. A part-time permanent or temporary employee receives holiday pay prorated on the basis of the average number of paid hours credited to the employee in the four payroll weeks preceding the holiday. For the purpose of calculating overtime, holidays are included as hours worked.
(c) Fire department. A sworn employee in the emergency response bureau of the fire department will receive the equivalent of 12 holidays a year in accordance with departmental regulations.
(d) Weekend holidays. When an official holiday falls on a weekend, the following alternative schedule applies:
(1) A holiday that falls on a Saturday will be taken the Friday before the holiday.
(2) A holiday that falls on a Sunday will be taken the Monday after the holiday.
(e) Worked holidays. In a department in which employees regularly work on holidays, the department shall arrange schedules to allow each employee who works on the holiday a substitute holiday either before or after the holiday, but within a reasonable period of time. If the department cannot arrange a substitute holiday, the employee will be paid for hours equal to the employee’s standard workday. This subsection does not apply to sworn fire department shift personnel.
(f) Loss of holiday pay. An employee will not receive pay for a holiday if the employee is:
(1) on unapproved leave without pay either the day before or the day following an official holiday;
(2) on unapproved leave without pay on a holiday on which the employee is normally scheduled to work; or
(3) on approved leave without pay the day before and the day following an official holiday, except to the extent the leave is authorized by the City’s Family and Medical Leave provisions.
(g) Holiday during vacation or sick leave. When an official holiday occurs during an employee's vacation leave or sick leave, the employee will be paid for the holiday and no deduction from the employee's vacation or sick leave balance will be made for the holiday.
(h) Holiday during injury leave. Any employee who is on injury leave when a holiday occurs will be paid workers' compensation and will be paid for the holiday up to the number of hours needed to supplement the employee's pay. If the employee is on wage supplementation, no wage supplementation payments will be received for the holiday. No compensation will be provided for unused holiday time.
(i) Holiday during other leave. An employee on military leave, court leave, or death- in-family leave when a holiday occurs may take the holiday at a subsequent date convenient to the department.
(j) Death or discharge. Since final settlement of monies due an employee separated from the payroll because of death or discharge is paid in a lump sum, no holiday occurring after the date of death or discharge will be included in the determination of the settlement. (Ord. Nos. 19340; 24622; 24873; 28024; 28794; 29480; 32005
; 32342
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